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Federal Register 

Vol. 88, No. 230 

Friday, December 1, 2023 

Title 3— 

The President 

Executive Order 14111 of November 27, 2023 

Interagency Security Committee 

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the 

laws of the United States of America, and in order to enhance the quality 

and effectiveness of security in and protection of buildings and facilities 

in the United States occupied by Federal employees or Federal contractor 

workers for nonmilitary activities, and to provide an ongoing entity to address 

continuing Government-wide security for Federal facilities, it is hereby ordered as follows: 

Section 1. Establishment. There is hereby established the Interagency Security 

Committee (Committee). The Committee shall consist of: 

(a) the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary); 

(b) representatives from the following executive departments and agencies 

(agencies), designated by the heads of such agencies: 

(i) the Department of State; 

(ii) the Department of the Treasury; 

(iii) the Department of Defense; 

(iv) the Department of Justice; 

(v) the Department of the Interior; 

(vi) the Department of Agriculture; 

(vii) the Department of Commerce; 

(viii) the Department of Labor; 

(ix) the Department of Health and Human Services; 

(x) the Department of Housing and Urban Development; 

(xi) the Department of Transportation; 

(xii) the Department of Energy; 

(xiii) the Department of Education; 

(xiv) the Department of Veterans Affairs; 

(xv) the Environmental Protection Agency; 

(xvi) the Office of Management and Budget; 

(xvii) the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; and 

(xviii) the General Services Administration; 

(c) the following officials or their designees: 

(i) the Director of the United States Marshals Service; 

(ii) the Director of the Federal Protective Service; 

(iii) the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; 

(iv) the Director of the Office of Personnel Management; and 

(v) the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and 

(d) such other Federal officials as the President may from time to time 

designate. 

Sec. 2. Chair. The Committee shall be chaired by the Secretary or the 

designee of the Secretary. 


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Sec. 3. Working Groups. The Committee is authorized to establish interagency 

working groups to perform such tasks as may be directed by the Committee. 

Sec. 4. Consultation. The Committee may consult with officials in other 

Federal Government entities, including the Administrative Office of the 

United States Courts and the United States Postal Service, to perform its 

responsibilities under this order, and, at the discretion of the Committee, 

officials from other Federal Government entities may participate in the interagency working groups. 

Sec. 5. Duties and Responsibilities. The Committee shall: 

(a) establish policies and standards for security in and protection of Federal 

facilities; 

(b) evaluate existing security standards for Federal facilities and develop 

a strategy to monitor the implementation of such standards to ensure compliance by agencies; 

(c) take such actions as may be necessary to enhance the quality and 

effectiveness of security in and protection of Federal facilities, including: 

(i) encouraging agencies with security responsibilities to share securityrelated intelligence in a timely and cooperative manner; 

(ii) assessing technology and information systems as means of providing 

cost-effective improvements to security in Federal facilities; 

(iii) developing long-term construction standards for those locations with 

threat levels or missions that require blast-resistant structures or other 

specialized security requirements; 

(iv) evaluating standards for the location of, and special security related 

to, child care centers in Federal facilities; 

(v) assisting the Secretary in developing and maintaining a centralized 

security database of all Federal facilities; and 

(vi) providing best practices for securing a mobile Federal workforce; 

and 

(d) no later than 1 year after the date of this order and biennially thereafter, 

prepare and provide to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 

and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs a summary 

report describing the results of compliance under subsection 6(c) of this 

order. 

Sec. 6. Agency Support and Cooperation. (a) To the extent permitted by 

law and subject to the availability of appropriations, the Secretary shall 

provide the Committee such administrative services, funds, facilities, staff, 

and other support services as may be necessary for the performance of 

its functions under this order. 

(b) Each agency shall cooperate and comply with the requirements of 

this order and the policies and standards of the Committee issued pursuant 

to this order, except in situations in which the Director of National Intelligence, or other United States Intelligence Community official within the 

Office of the Director of National Intelligence designated by the Director 

of National Intelligence, determines that compliance would jeopardize intelligence sources and methods. To the extent permitted by law and subject 

to the availability of appropriations, agencies shall provide such cooperation 

and compliance as may be necessary to enable the Committee to perform 

its duties and responsibilities under this order. 

(i) Each agency shall designate a senior official who shall be responsible 

for agency implementation of, and compliance with, this order. 

(ii) The senior official shall ensure that the official’s agency supports 

Facility Security Committees, as applicable, in the performance of the 

official’s duties. 

(c) The Secretary shall monitor agency compliance with the policies and 

standards of the Committee. Monitoring compliance shall consist, at a minimum, of the following: 


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(i) maintaining compliance benchmarks to measure compliance progress; 

(ii) requiring periodic compliance reporting by all relevant agencies; and 

(iii) conducting risk-based compliance verification. 

(d) In situations in which a Federal facility is occupied by multiple 

agencies for both military and nonmilitary activities, and each such occupancy is substantial, those occupants shall coordinate on the security of 

the facility. 

Sec. 7. Administrative Provision. This order supersedes Executive Order 

12977 of October 19, 1995 (Interagency Security Committee), which is hereby 

revoked. To the extent that this order is inconsistent with any provision 

of any previous Executive Order or Presidential Memorandum, this order 

shall control. All policies and standards implemented by the Interagency 

Security Committee that was established pursuant to Executive Order 12977 

shall remain in effect until rescinded or replaced by the Committee established pursuant to this order. 

Sec. 8. Definitions. For purposes of this order: 

(a) ‘‘Agency’’ means an executive agency, as defined in section 105 of 

title 5, United States Code. 

(b) ‘‘Federal facility’’ means a federally owned or leased building, structure, 

or the land it resides on, in whole or in part, that is regularly occupied 

by Federal employees or Federal contractor workers for nonmilitary activities. 

The term ‘‘Federal facility’’ also means any building or structure acquired 

by a contractor through ownership or leasehold interest, in whole or in 

part, solely for the purpose of executing a nonmilitary Federal mission 

or function under the direction of an agency. The term ‘‘Federal facility’’ 

does not include public domain land, including improvements thereon; withdrawn lands; or buildings or facilities outside of the United States. 

(c) ‘‘Federal employee’’ means an employee, as defined in section 2105 

of title 5, United States Code, of an agency. 

(d) ‘‘Federal contractor worker’’ means any individual who performs work 

for or on behalf of any agency under a contract, subcontract, or contractlike instrument and who, in order to perform the work specified under 

the contract, subcontract, or contract-like instrument, requires access to space, 

information, information technology systems, staff, or other assets of the 

Federal Government in buildings and facilities of the United States. Such 

contracts include the following: 

(i) personal service contracts; 

(ii) contracts between any non-Federal entity and any agency; and 

(iii) subcontracts between any non-Federal entity and another non-Federal 

entity to perform work related to the primary contract with an agency. 

(e) ‘‘Facility Security Committee’’ means a committee that is established 

in accordance with an Interagency Security Committee standard, and that 

is responsible for addressing facility-specific security issues and approving 

the implementation of security measures and practices in multi-tenant facilities. 

Sec. 9. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed 

to impair or otherwise affect: 

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, 

or the head thereof; or 

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 

relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals. 

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and 

subject to the availability of appropriations. 


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(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, 

substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party 

against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, 

employees, or agents, or any other person. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

November 27, 2023. 

[FR Doc. 2023–26569 

Filed 11–30–23; 8:45 am] 

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